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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
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CHAPTER 33
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Manasseh reigns in wickedness and worships false gods—He is taken captive into Assyria—He repents and serves the Lord—Amon reigns in unrighteousness and is slain.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 1 (1-9)."><span class='smallcaps'>Manasseh</span></a> was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
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But did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had cast out before the children of Israel.
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&#182; For he built again the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 34: 3 (3-7).">high</a> places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 9: 14.">Baalim</a>, and made <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/33/3c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB asheroth—fertility worship symbols.">groves</a>, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
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Also he built altars in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, whereof the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And he caused his children to pass through the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 6; 2 Chr. 28: 3; Ezek. 20: 26.">fire</a> in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE practiced soothsaying.">observed</a> times, and used enchantments, and used <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/33/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 18: 12 (10-14).">witchcraft</a>, and <sup>d</sup><a href="2_chr/33/6d" mark="d" type="D" title="IE practiced spiritualism.">dealt</a> with a <sup>e</sup><a href="2_chr/33/6e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Spirits, Evil or Unclean.">familiar</a> spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to provoke him to anger.
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And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
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Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
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So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, <i>and</i> to do <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 24: 30.">worse</a> than the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>, whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 37; Alma 10: 6 (5-6).">hearken</a>.
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&#182; Wherefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB with hooks.">among</a> the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
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And when he was in <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">affliction</a>, he <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 101: 8 (7-9).">besought</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> his God, and <sup>c</sup><a href="2_chr/33/12c" mark="c" type="A" title="Alma 32: 12 (6, 12-16).">humbled</a> himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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And prayed unto him: and he was <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 25: 21.">intreated</a> of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.  Then <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 12: 3 (2-3).">Manasseh</a> knew that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> he <i>was</i> God.
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Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zeph. 1: 10.">gate</a>, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/14b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR fortified.">fenced</a> cities of Judah.
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And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and in Jerusalem, and cast <i>them</i> out of the city.
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And he repaired the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel.
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Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, <i>yet</i> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God only.
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&#182; Now the rest of the acts of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 17.">Manasseh</a>, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_chr/33/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Seer.">seers</a> that spake to him in the name of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of Israel, behold, they <i>are written</i> in the book of the kings of Israel.
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His prayer also, and <i>how God</i> was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they <i>are</i> written among the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Lost.">sayings</a> of the seers.
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&#182; So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="2_chr/33/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 19 (19-24).">Amon</a> <i>was</i> two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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But he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
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And humbled not himself before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
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And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
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&#182; But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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